I can now only boot into safemode because I cannot get these 4 packages to upgrade:

udev
media-player-info
xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-video-intel

udev refuses to configure.

The full output is below. I have removed (I made a copy 1st) all mention of virtualbox from /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/available but that made no difference. Probably a bad thing to do.
It looks like this bug but I have no clue what they are on about and how to fix it.http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre...?bug=%23590885

If you already have this and it doesn't work or if for some reason you can't install it,
then the easiest fix is probably to edit the status file and fix the version number. Make
sure you backup the file first.

If you already have this and it doesn't work or if for some reason you can't install it,
then the easiest fix is probably to edit the status file and fix the version number. Make
sure you backup the file first.

It did boot into the GUI before this started happening after the 1st update, but the mouse and keyboard would not work, so I reset the box and went into safemode boot, then did the apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade when this started.

Can I manually install udev? That seems to be a problem as it's not starting automatically.

wikapuki

09-02-2010 12:29 PM

With the help of evo2 and AlucardZero I have got rid of the

Quote:

error in Version string '3.0.12-54655_Debian_lenny': invalid character in revision number

But still cannot boot to X and udev does not start automatically but will start manually'ish after I boot into safemode:
/etc/init.d/udev start

During boot I am seeing bootmisc.sh fails

Still. the 4 packages will not upgrade or install manually with dpkg -i, here is the last log:

Things just got stranger... I decided to start loads of things manually in /etc/init.d from safemode. Then did exit and that started the normal boot. It has booted into X ;-)
These are what I started manually:

Same error just happened on my other debian box, so have done the above before restart. Did not as yet need to re-install initscripts. Think that was due to my messing around.
uname -a
Linux jilldando 2.6.32-5-486 #1 Thu Aug 12 12:59:56 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux